Tag: Indian Premier League
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“BCCI Registers New Constitution: A Move Closer To Implementing Lodha Recommendations Yet Far From It”
“The heart, kidney, lungs are being taken out of these reforms”- Justice RM Lodha (on implementation of the Lodha Committee recommendations by BCCI) The BCCI –Lodha saga has seen many interesting twists and turns in the recent past. The attempts at cleansing the maladministration of cricket in the country has given mixed results and received…
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Match Manipulation and Inadequacy of Indian Criminal Law
“The integrity of the game is everything” Peter Uberroth Sporting Integrity is one of the most controversial points of the current century. Issues such as doping, betting, gambling, match-manipulation have engulfed the sporting sphere. In India, the issue of match-fixing has sprung up time and again, highlighting the inadequacy of the current system of administration…
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The commercial handshake: Exploring the pervasiveness of IPL-IPR
By Rishika Mendiratta (Founder and Managing Editor at KhelAdhikar) The transition from Orwell’s interpretation of, “Sports is war minus shooting” to Andre Maurious’ description of, “Business is a combination of war and sport” encapsulates the present scenario of societal and commercial inter-linkages of the sports industry. In the Indian context, IPL is the best example…
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IPL’s Media Medallion leaves us STAR-STRUCK for 5 years
By Rishika Mendiratta (Co-founder and Managing Editor at KhelAdhikar Broadcasting is too serious a business to be left to the broadcasters-Tony Benn The above quote is an apt prelude to the events, speculations and the result that surrounded the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) media rights auction that concluded on September 4, 2017. Star secured the…